Posts published in “San Mateo County”

After a three-week initial count of nearly 300,000 ballots in San Mateo County, highway expansionists celebrated yesterday as updated results showed a sudden swing from 66.55 to 66.85 percent approval of Measure W, the half-cent transportation sales tax crafted by county transportation officials with heavy corporate influence. While election results…

Voters in the San Francisco mid-Peninsula region are clamoring for change as they dumped city council incumbents in Mountain View, Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, and Menlo Park in yesterday’s general elections. In those cities – if results as of Wednesday evening hold – just 3 of 9 incumbents running…